Valley River Center in Eugene is teeing up for a hole-in-one with a deal to snag sports retailer Dick’s Sporting Goods. Dick’s is considering opening a Dick’s House of Sport store, a gargantuan sports-products-and-services emporium, at VRC, architectural and other planning records reviewed by Eugene Weekly show. It would be Oregon’s first Dick’s House of Sport and would be an anchor business for VRC.

The two-story, roughly 150,000-square-foot Dick’s building would be constructed on what is now VRC’s main-entrance outdoor plaza and part of the front parking lot, the plans show.

House of Sport stores are over-the-top venues that Dick’s began rolling out five years ago. Dick’s, America’s largest sports retailer, calls them “experiential sports retail destinations.”

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